Diseases in Biochemistry Flashcards
Mitochondrial disease characterized by bilateral loss of central vision due to neuroretinal degeneration. This is characterized by deficiency in which complex of the ETC?
Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
Complex III
Inherited condition due to NADH:Q oxidoreductase (Complex I) deficiency. It is caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA and may be involved in Alzheimer’s disease and DM.
MELAS
Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidodis and stroke
Prion diseases are characterized by alteration of the conformation and physical properties of proteins endogenous to the human host. Normal PrP is a glycoprotein rich in ___ (secondary structure) while PrPsc has many ____.
PrP: alpha helices
PrPsc: beta sheets
Most fatal of the mitochondrial diseases characterized by deficiency in all complexes of the ETC
Fatal infantile mitochondrial myopathy
Mitochondrial disease characterized by deficiency in Complex II
Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
Mitochondrial disease characterized by deficiency in Complex IV
Leigh’s Disease
Manifests as chronic hemolytic anemia, this condition is the most common enzyme defect in glycolysis.
Pyruvate kinase deficiency.
Aldolase A is another glycolytic enzyme that may be deficient.
The exercise capacity of patients with ___ is low particularly if they are on high carbohydrate diets. By providing lipid as an alternative fuel (during starvation), when blood free fatty acid and ketone bodies are increased, work capacity is impoved.
Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency
Most common biochemical cause of congenital lactic acidosis. What is the pattern of inheritance?
Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Because enzyme is deficient, pyruvate is shunted towards lactate production. Patients present with lactic acidosis and neurologic disturbance.
X-linked dominant!
There are only a few diseases that are X-linked dominant; another example is Alport Syndrome.
Glycogen accumulation in liver and renal tubule cells; hypoglycemia; lactic acidemia; ketosis; hyperlipemia
Most likely diagnosis? Deficient enzyme?
Von Gierke’s Disease (Type I)
Glucose-6-phosphatase
Accumulation of glycogen in lysosomes.
Juvenile form: muscle hypotonia, death from heart failure by2.
Adult form: muscle dystrophy
Pompe’s Disease (Type II)
Lysosomal a1>4, a1>6 glucosidase
(Acid maltase)
MNEMONIC: Pompe’s affects the pump (heart).
Fasting hypoglycemia; hepatomegaly in infancy; accumulation of characteristic branched polysaccharide
Cori’s (or Forbe’s) Disease (Type III)
Debranching enzyme
MNEMONIC: ABCD
Andersen’s = Branching enzyme
Cori’s = Debranching enzyme
Hepatosplenomegaly; accumulation of polysaccharide with few branch points. Death from heart or liver failure in first years of life
Andersen’s (Amylopectinosis) (Type IV)
Branching enzyme
MNEMONIC: ABCD
Andersen’s = Branching enzyme
Cori’s = Debranching enzyme
Poor exercise tolerance. Muscle glycogen abnormally high. Blood lactate very low after exercise.
McArdle’s syndrome (Type V)
Muscle phosphorylase
McArdle's = Muscle phosphorylase HEr's = HEpatic phosphorylase
Hepatomegaly; accumulation of glycogen in liver; mild hypoglycemia; generally good prognosis
Her’s Disease (Type VI)
Liver phosphorylase
McArdle's = Muscle phosphorylase HEr's = HEpatic phosphorylase
Poor exercise tolerance. Muscle glycogen abnormally high. Blood lactate very low after exercise. AND HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA
Tarui’s Disease
Muscle and erythrocyte phosphofructokinase I
Hepatomegaly; accumulation of glycogen in liver; mild hypoglycemia; generally good prognosis
Her’s Disease (Type VI)
Liver phosphorylase
In the rare hereditary condition, considerable quantities of L-xylulose appear in the urine because of the absence of the enzyme necessary to reduce L-xylulose to xylitol.
Essential pentosuria.
Aminopyrine and antipyrine increase the excretion of L-xylulose.
Benign and asymptomatic condition whose only symptom is the appearance of fructose in blood and urine. What is the enzyme deficiency?
Essential fructosuria;
hepatic fructokinase
Characterized by lack of hepatic fructokinase
Essential fructosuria
Characterized by lack of aldolase B. Causes fructose-induced hypoglycemia because high levels of fructose-1-phosphate allosterically inhibit liver phosphorylase
Hereditary fructose intolerance
Autosomal recessive condition in which galactitol accumulates causing cataracts within a few days of birth; vomiting and diarrhea after milk ingestion; hepatosplenomegaly; and mental retardation. This condition is due to deficiency in ___.
Classic galactosemia
Galatose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase
A benign condition characterized by galactosemia, galactosuria and an increased tendency for cataracts
Galactokinase deficiency
This condition is characterized by low levels of docosahexaenoic acid
Retinitis pigmentosa
Inherited defect in fatty acid metabolism; affects only the liver; results in reduced fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis, with hypoglycemia.
CPT-I deficiency
Inherited defect in fatty acid metabolism; affects mainly the skeletal muscle; results in reduced fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis, with hypoglycemia.
CPT-II deficiency
Hypoglycemia occurs after eating the unripe fruit of the akee tree, which contains hypoglycin - an inactivator of medium and short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase
Jamaican vomiting sickness
Characterized by excretion of C6 - C10 dicarboxylic acids and by nonketotic hypoglycemia. What is the deficient enzyme?
Dicarboxylic aciduria
Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase
Neurologic disorder due to metabolic defect resulting in accumulation of phytanic acid found in dairy products and ruminant fat and meat.
Refsum’s disease
Rare inherited absence of peroxisomes in all tissues. They accumulate C26 - C38 polyenoic acids in brain tissue; causing severe neurologic deficits.
Zellweger’s syndrome
Deficiency in medium chain fatty-acyl dehydrogenase leads to fasting hypoglycemia. Pediatric patients are susceptible to this condition.
Sudden infant death syndrome
Most common leukodystrophy. This is characterized by deficiency in which enzyme.
Symptoms include mental retardation, psychologic disturbances in adults. Demyelination.
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
Arylsulfatase A
MNEMONIC:
This condition is characterized by psychologic disturbances.
METAchromatic = ME TAMA sa ulo!
Name all glycogen storage disorders from Type I to Type VI
Viagra Pills Cause A Major Hard-on
I: Von Gierke II: Pompe III: Cori IV: Andersen V: McArdle's VI: Her's
Name all lysosomal storage disorders from Type I to Type VI
Viagra Pills Cause A Major Hard-on
I: Von Gierke II: Pompe III: Cori IV: Andersen V: McArdle's VI: Her's
X-linked recessive disorder. Clinical symptoms include skin rash, kidney failure. Full symptoms are seen only in males.
Fabry’s disease.
MNEMONIC: FFAABBBRY Foam cells found in glomeruli and tubules Febrile episodes Alpha galactosidase A deficiency Angiokeratomas Burning pain in extremities BUN increased in serum Boys Renal failure YX genotype (male, X linked recessive)
Also ZeBRa bodies
Mutation in sickle cell anemia
“HbS isn’t Very Good”
At sixth position of Hb beta chain, Valine is present instead of Glutamic acid.
SICKle cell = SIXth amino acid of Hb b chain
Triad of skin rash, hoarseness, bone malformation. WHat is the deficient enzyme?
Farber’s Disease
Ceramidase
Characterized by hepatosplenomegaly, erosion of long bones, mental retardation in infants.
Gaucher’s Disease
Deficiency in b-glucosidase
Characterized by hepatosplenomegaly, erosion of long bones, mental retardation in infants.
Gaucher’s Disease
Characterized by mental retardation; myelin almost absent. Peripheral neuropathy, optic atrophy
Krabbe’s disease
Deficiency in b-galactosidase
“The Crab Nebula is a GALaxy”
Deficiency in galactocerebrosidase;
Has GLOBOID cells
This disease is caused by a deficiency in:
- b-glucosidase
- b-galactosidase
- Gaucher’s
- Krabbe’s
GaUchers: b-glUcosidase
KrAbbe’s: b-gAlactosidase
This condition is characterized by hepatosplenomegaly, mental retardation and is fatal in early life.
Niemann-Pick
Sphingomyelinase
MNEMONIC:
Niemann Picks his nose with his sFINGERS (sphingomyelinase).
Which sphingolipidoses are characterized by the presence of a cherry-red macula?
Tay-Sach’s
Niemann-Pick’s
In multiple sclerosis, there is loss both phospholipids and sphingolipids in the white matter. Which phospholipid in particular is lost in MS?
Ethanolamine plasmalogen
A deficiency in LDL receptor causes increased levels of LDL in the peripheral icrculation and an increased risk of atherosclerosis.
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Type II